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Anime and Manga

Ghost in the Shell and Innocence, though in keeping with the show's status as Lighter and Softer, the weather is nicer in Stand Alone Complex. There are still more than a few episodes with rain, such as the fourth episode of the first season, where it's actually a minor plot point (a murder is covered up as a traffic accident caused by a rainstorm).

Dominion Tank Police is set in a future where the weather is so bad even ordinary people carry gas masks with them for fear of pollution.

Though not strictly cyberpunk, K: Missing Kings evokes the genre by using this look in the opening sequence to introduce the tech-tinged new antagonists, JUNGLE.

Comic Books

In Elephantmen, it rains very frequently in 2250's Los Angeles. British-born creator Richard Starkings says this is becaus "all Englishmen in L.A. miss the rain — or at least I do."

Film

Blade Runner is probably responsible for starting the trend in films. The endless rain was a reference to Film Noir. It also helped disguise the fact that he was just shooting on the backlot — all those scenes set at night with lots of rain and smoke are a great disguise. In this 2005 interview with Wired Magazine, Ridley Scott stated that the rain in part was present to hide the wires on the Spinners. Quote: "Because you can't make a spinner fly without a crank. That's why it was raining in the shot, because the rain would help to hide the cables."

In The Matrix, the weather is initially always nice inside the matrix, but outside the Matrix, the sun is permanently blocked by a planet-covering cloud of nanites. Once Smith takes over, the trope applies directly to the world inside the Matrix.

Spielberg's Minority Report features some sunny vistas, but there's also quite a few overcast skies, as well as precog-predicted rain.

Immortal is a French cyberpunk film taking place in New York City. The skies are perpetually and dismally overcast, except in Central Park, which mysteriously has the weather conditions of Antarctica.

Parodied and subverted in Back to the Future Part II. The DeLorean lands in a back alley, gearing up for a dark, cyberpunk setting...and then the skies clear.

The protagonist of Italian film Hands Of Steel (also known as Vendetta dal futuro, Fists of Steel, Paco the Death Machine, in Quebec as L'enfonceur) is a cyborg sent to kill a scientist, who is trying to stop acid rains. Not far from the beginning his car gets burned by such rain.

Split Second: (Then-) future London, and so bad that a good chunk of it has long since flooded. You never even see the sun up until the final credits.

Ironically, the opening phrase still works, provided one interprets it as proof that urban techno-fetishist Case is so thoroughly-alienated from nature that the only thing he can think of to compare a gorgeous blue sky to is a damn television screen. (Or it would be, if there weren't an explicit reference to a "poisoned silver sky.")

Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather (1994) turns this trope Up to Eleven, as climate change has increased the violence and unpredictability of global weather patterns to such an extent that "Tornado Alley" in the Great Plains has been rendered nearly uninhabitable.

In George Johansson's novel Datorernas död ("Death of the Computers"), pollution and climate change has rendered the skies almost permanently overcast.

Although it isn't cyberpunk (despite an army of cyborgs and more people being cyborgized daily), David Weber's Armageddon Inheritance plays this straight. Earth is being sieged by Absolute Xenophobe aliens, who bombard it with asteroids, the only starship went searching for help and disappeared, missiles and energy are running low... Asteroids that break through defenses usually hit oceans, filling air with water and salt and increasing albedo. Most scenes set on Earth during the siege have icy rain as a backdrop.

The happy ending inverts this. The rains have washed all pollution from the air and the sky is cleaner than it's been for centuries.

Live Action TV

In the miniseries Cold Lazarus it was thick smog. Like, closer to brown smoke. People wondered aloud what it must have been like when the air was clear enough to go for walks outside.

Total Recall 2070: It's always dark, gloomy, and often raining in the cyberpunkish New York City of 2070.

Scenes in Dark Angel, when they do take place during the day, are always cloudy and overcast. Though this could just be because the show takes place in Seattle.

Music

mind.in.a.box's albums - set within a cyberpunk continuity - all take place at night, when Black is engaging in operations for The Agency. The cover art for Memories depicts Black standing before a pitch-black city, and the final song in the album, "5ynchr0ni7e" begins with White musing on the city.

The night is black like never before. From the roof of the Agency, the entire sprawling city looks like a dark maelstrom that constantly changes form...

Tabletop Games

The original default campaign setting for Shadowrun was Seattle. Not only was it cloudier and rainier than most of the U.S., but the weather often included acid rain.

Same for Cyberpunk 2020, where the weather often includes acid rain. Or worse.

On the Planet/City of Mort in SLA Industries, it rains for approximately 364 days per year. Which is perhaps fortunate, given that even Mister Slayer himself doesn't want to see what happens to the when it stops raining and all of the serial killers, hired mercenaries, gun-wielding gangsters, drug-fuelled war veterans, crazed mutants and even his own Operatives get hot and bothered.

Video Games

The first arc of Binary Domain takes place at night, during heavy rain.

It is Always Night in Deus Ex. Or sunset. This is a game mechanics thing — Deus Ex's sneaking system requires shadows. It fits perfectly into the game's theme.

In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, it's almost always night, overcast or raining. There's plenty of light in Jensen's apartment, though, so it can stream through the windows just like in Blade Runner. In Hengsha, it's actually a perfectly sunny day, but the Upper City high above and the tall buildings block most of the light.

The 1997 Blade Runner video game, being set in the same city and the same time as the film, is a clear-cut example.

The Metroid series loves its acid rain, featuring the stuff on two different incarnations of Zebes as well as the Space Pirates' home planet (where it'll kill you in seconds unless you've obtained a hazard shield).

The cyberpunk-inspired Sanctuary Fortress in the second Metroid Prime game subverts this: the "rain" is actually lines of energy that flow upwards.

As the rainy season continues there will be increased humidity and constant rainfall, although mostly restricted to a light drizzle. Constant cloud cover is expected and temperatures will reach a moderate 20 degrees.

Pollution

Due to the rain and cloud cover there will be a serious increase of trapped pollution in the air and it is recommended that masks are worn at all times for those in pollution risk category A. The risk should clear in 2 or 3 weeks.

Final Fantasy VII: It doesn't rain in Midgar because of the plate over the lower city(ies), but it is dark, gloomy, and polluted, to the point where even the ground and sky turn black around the city on the world map.

There's a peripheral reference to this trope in a level of the original Unreal Tournament. Outside the windows of the fight compound there is constant rain, and the map description mentions the suicide-inducingly dreary weather as the reason this scientific outpost was converted into a deathmatch arena.

Played with in Dystopia. No official maps take place on sunny days. They're all either at night or on overcast days, but this is used uniquely in the tutorial. As you're exploring the abandoned underground complex, your supervisor notes that the artificial day/night cycle is stuck at sunset permanently.

New Lumos in Miitopia is a cyberpunk, neon-lit city which is perpetually watered by heavy rain.

Defied in Transistor, where the public is able to control the weather via popular vote, but when Red checks a terminal that contains a weather ballot, rain is specifically left off of it (the Transistor laments that they can't make it rain to cover their tracks.) Near the end of the game, Red gets admin privileges for the same terminal, and is able to make it snow instead.

Dreamfall Chapters: Zoë complains that it always rains in Europolis, to the point where Zoë jokingly explains to the locals what the Sun is.

Paradise City is overcast with rain 29 days out of 30 in Sluggy Freelance. Riff getting a clear view of the sky becomes a plot point.

Web Original

Fenspace: The inhabitants of Genaros, a cyberpunk-themed space station, went through the trouble of building it with tinted windows that let in only 25% of incoming light, installing sprinklers in its central axis and using holograms to make its "sky" look like a television tuned to a dead channel specifically to invoke this trope.

Western Animation

The rain shows up dramatically for the final battle in Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker, though it's hinted at early on with cloudy weather and drops on car doors.

Real Life

Seattle, home to many tech companies (prominently giants Amazon, Nintendo of America, and Microsoft, but also many smaller companies), is known for its gray weather.

Slightly meta example: the developers for Shadowrun Returns, a cyberpunk computer game based on a cyberpunk tabletop game that are both set in Seattle (renowned for its rainy weather), are situated just outside of Seattle.

This stands true for western Oregon and Northern California as well, hence the names "Silicon Forest" and "Silicon Valley," respectively. Pretty much anywhere on the west facing side of the Cascade mountains can be put under this trope with little trouble.

Shanghai, the Mega Citypar excellence of China (see here◊), gets almost twice as much rain yearly as London does, despite England having a reputation for dismal weather.

Some U.K cities, with their highest concentration of surveillance/security cameras in the world can be though of having some cyberpunk elements. And the U.K has a reputation for overcast, wet weather. Particularly "Silicon Roundabout" (where many upstart tech companies, non-profit organisations and UK branches of multinational businesses are based) in London.

Hong Kong, often described as a city straight out of a cyberpunk novel, used to (and still occasionly does) have air quality issues that result in copious amounts of smog. In addition, it does have a monsoon season.

Of course, in any discussion of this trope, you can't forget the Cyberpunk Japanese Neo-Empire, the financial, cultural, and political heart of any classic cyberpunk world — and a nation that's even rainier than the UK. Tokyo averages 60 inches of rain per year (for comparison's sake, America's wettest city, Mobile, Alabama, averages 66.3 inches annually), and many cities receive frequent "guerrilla rainstorms" due to both the climate and the urban heat island effect.

Though not as noticeable or famous as the other East Asian cities in the list, Seoul could be considered as one, thanks to it's reputation as the tech-savvy capital of South Korea, heavy neon lights, and a monsoon season, which results in a pretty amazing scenery◊.

Scandinavia and Finland. Extremely tech-savvy countries, which are located at the occlusion zone of the Northern Atlantic low pressures. The presence of the Scandian mountains and the ensuing Föhn wind certainly doesn't make the climate drier or sunnier.

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